Religion of Poverty

The trend in charedyism is to prohibit everything. This disturbing inclination has now made communal sustainability unviable. I mean sustainability literally; first we prohibit fish, then vegetables, of course education, now investing. I don’t care how many children are born a year in Mea Shearim and Boro Park, in ten years they will all be suffering from self-imposed starvation. This will fundamentally reverse the demographic trend of the last 20 years moving our community to the back to the left. The chumra meme is an epidemic that will only die when it kills its host, like any other hostile virus.